Martin Thomas (editor) - Decolonization and Conflict: Colonial Comparisons and Legacies

Decolonization and Conflict

Decolonization and Conflict

Colonial Comparisons and Legacies

Edited by Martin Thomas and Gareth Curless

Bloomsbury Academic

An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Contents

Martin Thomas and Gareth Curless

Kim A. Wagner

Martin Thomas

Roel Frakking

Gareth Curless

Brian Drohan

Miguel Bandeira Jer nimo

Moritz Feichtinger

Katherine Bruce-Lockhart

Karl Hack

Mathilde von B low

Emmanuel Blanchard and Neil MacMaster

Huw Bennett

Jeremy Kuzmarov

Huw Bennett is Reader in International Relations at Cardiff University. He specializes in British defence and security since 1945, and co-edits the journal Critical Military Studies . He is currently writing a book, The British Armys War in Northern Ireland, 1966-1979 , for Cambridge University Press, with support from the Leverhulme Trust.

Emmanuel Blanchard is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He is also a researcher at the Center for Sociological Research on Law and Criminal Justice Institutions (CESDIP, UMR 8183, CNRS and French Ministry of Justice). His research interests include the history of immigration and colonial policing, especially in the France-North Africa area. He is the author of La police parisienne et les Algriens, 1944-1962 (2011), and the editor of two special issues on colonial policing ( Crime, History and Societies , vol. 15, no . 2 (2011); Genses. Histoire & Sciences sociales , no . 86 (2012)).

Katherine Bruce-Lockhart is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation is a social history of the Uganda Prisons Service, focusing in particular on the period between Ugandas independence in 1962 and the fall of Idi Amin in 1979. Katherines previous research on the detention of women during the Mau Mau Rebellion has been published in the Journal of Eastern African Studies and the Journal of World History . Prior to coming to Cambridge, she did an MSc in African Studies at the University of Oxford and a BA in History and African Studies at the University of Toronto.

Gareth Curless is a lecturer in history at the University of Exeter. He is currently writing up the results of an ESRC-funded project (201316) on the relationship between labour unrest and decolonization in the British Empire. From 2016 he will be coordinating a Leverhulme Trust research network, Understanding Insurgencies: Resonances from the Colonial Past, with Professor Martin Thomas.

Brian Drohan is an active duty US Army officer. He has led an armoured platoon in Iraq with the 1st Infantry Division, worked at the US Embassy to Sri Lanka and the Maldives and taught history at the US Military Academy West Point. He holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as a BA and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Moritz Feichtinger is Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Berne. He has published on decolonization, counter-insurgency, population removal and developmentalism. He received his PhD in 2016 for his dissertation entitled Villagization A Peoles History of Strategic Resettlement and Violent Transformation. Kenya & Algeria 1952-1962. Recent publications include A Great Reformatory: Social Planning and Strategic Resettlement in Late Colonial Kenya and Algeria, 195263, in Journal of Contemporary History (online only); Transformative Invasions: Western Post-9/11 Counterinsurgency and the Lessons of colonialism, in Humanity. International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development 3, no. 1 (2012): 3563 (with Stephan Malinowski).

Roel Frakking completed his PhD at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. His thesis, Collaboration is a Very Delicate Concept: Alliance-formation and the Wars of Independence in Indonesia and Malaysia, 1945-1957, is a case study in the interface of late European empires and colonized societies. Specifically, it investigates how the Dutch and British empires tried to recruit local forces in Indonesia and Malaysia, respectively, to protect their economic assets, and how local communities and power brokers negotiated decolonization to their own ends. Frakkings research takes empires as a single analytical unit, and as spaces of multidirectional causes and effects. His most recent publication ( International History Review , 2016) analyses how during the war for Indonesian independence (19459) the Sundanese of West Java pursued an alternative path to independence and how they, in the process, clashed with both the Dutch colonial authorities and their opponents in the Republik Indonesia.

Karl Hack is Senior Lecturer in History and Head of the School of History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology (HRSSC) at The Open University. He was previously Associate Professor of History at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Related publications include Dialogues with Chin Peng: New Light on the Malayan Emergency (2004), and War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore (2012). He is currently working on a major book on the Malayan Emergency of 194860.

Miguel Bandeira Jernimo (PhD, Kings College London, 2008) is a research fellow at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. He was a visiting assistant professor at Brown University (2011 and 2012). Recently, he has been working on the historical intersections between internationalism(s) and imperialism, namely in the interwar period, and on the entanglements of idioms and repertoires of development and of societal control and coercion in late European colonial empires. He recently authored The Civilizing Mission of Portuguese Colonialism (c.1870-1930) (2015) and co-edited The Ends of European Colonial Empires: Cases and Comparisons and Os passados do presente: Internacionalismo, imperialismo e a construo do mundo contemporneo (2015). He is also co-editor of the book series Histria & Sociedade at Edies 70 (Portugal) and The Portuguese Speaking World: Its History, Politics and Culture at Sussex Academic.

Jeremy Kuzmarov teaches at the University of Tulsa and is the author of Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation Building in the American Century (2012) and The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs (2009). He is currently working on a history of American technowar since the Second World War. He is a blogger for the Huffington Post and writes for other online media.

Neil MacMaster , Honorary Reader at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK), researches in twentieth-century French and British colonial history. His publications include Colonial Migrants and Racism. Algerians in France, 1900-62 (1997), Racism in Europe (2001), with Dr Jim House, Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror, and Memory (2006) and Burning the Veil: The Algerian war and the emancipation of Muslim women, 1954-62 (2009). He is currently writing a study of Algerian peasant society and counter-insurgency in the Dahra and Ouarsenis mountains, c.194558.

Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History and Director of the Centre for the Study of War, State and Society at the University of Exeter. A specialist in the politics of contested decolonization, his most recent publications are Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940 (2012) and Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire (2014). With Gareth Curless he is currently coordinating a Leverhulme Trust research network, Understanding Insurgencies: Resonances from the Colonial Past.